Meh, he's swimming the narrowest bit.
It's like those "Round the World" Yacht races - they whizz down south, nip round the 60th parallell then come back up again, it's hardly going around the world is it ?

edit .. aha, reading his website further it's all clearly just a ploy to get off with Meccano Spanner

However, Ben's inspirational story of surviving premature birth, collapsed lungs and death in ICU at birth, is highlighted further by his drowning at five-years of age in a swimming pool in Belgium, which only served to enthuse him and drive on his love of water and the sea.

I can fully understand this, having been fully killed by a random meteor strike aged seven. Literally all they found were a few bits of gristle in the crater. But it only strengthened my love of astronomy, in fact the very next Christmas I asked for a telescope, and I still have a picture of Tim Peake on my bedroom wall.

However, Ben's inspirational story of surviving premature birth, collapsed lungs and death in ICU at birth, is highlighted further by his drowning at five-years of age in a swimming pool in Belgium, which only served to enthuse him and drive on his love of water and the sea.

I can fully understand this, having been fully killed by a random meteor strike aged seven. Literally all they found were a few bits of gristle in the crater. But it only strengthened my love of astronomy, in fact the very next Christmas I asked for a telescope, and I still have a picture of Tim Peake on my bedroom wall.

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However, Ben's inspirational story of surviving premature birth, collapsed lungs and death in ICU at birth, is highlighted further by his drowning at five-years of age in a swimming pool in Belgium, which only served to enthuse him and drive on his love of water and the sea.

I can fully understand this, having been fully killed by a random meteor strike aged seven. Literally all they found were a few bits of gristle in the crater. But it only strengthened my love of astronomy, in fact the very next Christmas I asked for a telescope, and I still have a picture of Tim Peake on my bedroom wall.

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meh....I mean, who hasn't been killed by a random meteor strike, eh?

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However, Ben's inspirational story of surviving premature birth, collapsed lungs and death in ICU at birth, is highlighted further by his drowning at five-years of age in a swimming pool in Belgium, which only served to enthuse him and drive on his love of water and the sea.

I can fully understand this, having been fully killed by a random meteor strike aged seven. Literally all they found were a few bits of gristle in the crater. But it only strengthened my love of astronomy, in fact the very next Christmas I asked for a telescope, and I still have a picture of Tim Peake on my bedroom wall.

Yep, I couldn't understand how he was still here if he'd actually drowned

It's not clear how he's actually doing it, but I assume he's getting out of the water and resting in the boat and then getting back in at the same GPS coordinates as he got out? The tracker shows that he's done 37 miles in nearly 5 days, so at that rate it's going to take him a hell of a long time to get there! His distance for the latest day is 6 miles in 5.5 hours.
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Yep, I couldn't understand how he was still here if he'd actually drowned

It's not clear how he's actually doing it, but I assume he's getting out of the water and resting in the boat and then getting back in at the same GPS coordinates as he got out? The tracker shows that he's done 37 miles in nearly 5 days, so at that rate it's going to take him a hell of a long time to get there! His distance for the latest day is 6 miles in 5.5 hours.

yep, i would guess it's not going quite to plan....unless he is positioning himself to pick up a current and has to do this hard bit first...
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Yep, I couldn't understand how he was still here if he'd actually drowned

It's not clear how he's actually doing it, but I assume he's getting out of the water and resting in the boat and then getting back in at the same GPS coordinates as he got out? The tracker shows that he's done 37 miles in nearly 5 days, so at that rate it's going to take him a hell of a long time to get there! His distance for the latest day is 6 miles in 5.5 hours.

yep, i would guess it's not going quite to plan....unless he is positioning himself to pick up a current and has to do this hard bit first...

I don't think its really gone to plan at all so far. He was due to start earlier in the summer, plus there was a last minute crew change.